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Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 2562 (C.59)

CIVIL AVIATION

The Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 (Commencement No. 3) Order 1998

Made

21st October 1998

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 21st day of October 1998

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 7(2) of the Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:–

1.  This Order may be cited as the Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 (Commencement No. 3) Order 1998.

2.  Section 3(1) of the Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 shall come into force on 22nd October 1998.

N.H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 22nd October 1998 section 3(1) of the Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 (power to make an Order in Council to make exceptions, adaptations and modifications to the Carriage by Air Act 1961(2), the Carriage by Air (Supplementary Provisions) Act 1962(3) and section 5(1) of the Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979(4) in consequence of the United Kingdom agreeing to an amendment to the Warsaw Convention as amended at The Hague, 1955). This Order is necessary to allow implementation in the UK of Montreal Additional Protocol No. 4, 1975.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order)

The following provisions of the Carriage by Air and Road Act 1979 have been brought into force by commencement order made before the date of this Order:

ProvisionDate of CommencementS.I. No.
ss. 3(3), 4(2) and 6(1)(b); ss. 4(4) and 5 (partially)28.12.19801980/1966
s. 4(1); ss. 4(4) and 5 (so far as they relate to enactments amended by s. 4(1); s. 6(1)(a) (so far as it relates to sections 9 and 10 of the Carriage by Air Act 1961); s. 6(3) (so far as it relates to the provisions specified above in this part of this column)1.12.19971997/2565